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Le prestigieux Fashion Institute of Technology, en élisant domicile dans le Garment District, rend honneur à ces années de gloire d’une New York, capitale de l’industrie textile. Cette école de mode, de design et des beaux arts accueille plusieurs milliers d’élèves chaque année, avec des anciens comme Naomi Sims, Isabel Toledo ou encore un certain Calvin Klein. Au cœur du bâtiment, le Museum at FIT, qui exhibe une collection impressionnante de vêtements, de textiles et d’accessoires, examine la Mode sous toutes ses coutures. Initialement en collaboration avec le Brooklyn Museum of Art, le Museum at FIT vole de ses propres ailes depuis 1993 et possède sa collection de plus de 4 000 paires de chaussures, 50 000 vêtements datant du 18eème siècle à nos jours. Il représente des confections de créateurs contemporains tels que Dior, Chanel ou Balenciaga… Le Musée dispose de trois galeries et présente des collections temporaires en roulement permanent sur des thèmes plutôt pointus. ...

    Nicolas Sarkozy, Queen Elizabeth, et Vladimir Poutine meurent en même temps et se retrouvent en enfer. > > > > > A leur arrivée ils repèrent un téléphone rouge et immédiatement demandent quelle en est l’utilité. > > > > > Le diable leur dit qu’il peut être utilisé pour appeler la terre dans des circonstances exceptionnelles. > >              Considérant tous les trois que les circonstances sont exceptionnelles car ils n’ont pas eu le temps de régler tous leurs problèmes, ils décident de demander s’ils peuvent s’en servir. Poutine demande donc d’appeler la Russie, il parle pendant 5 minutes et le diable lui dit qu’il lui doit 1 million de Roubles. Poutino fait un chèque. > > >      La Reine Elisabeth demande donc à son tour d’appeler l’Angleterre. Elle parle pendant 20 minutes et le diable lui demande 6 millions de livres. Elle paye. Nicolas Sar...

"Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning." Gordan Parks. Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery. KNOW // Fighting Racism with a Camera // Gordon Parks Sola Agustsson 3 days ago 2 What would be  Gordon Parks’  one hundredth birthday has spawned celebratory shows on view all over New York. One of the first black photographers for  LIFE  magazine,  Parks  became known for his provocative depictions of poverty, racism, and the Black Power movement. He says he pursued a photography career because, “I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil—along with the evil of racism—with a camera.” He took the famous photograph of Ella Watson, a government cleaning employee, holding a broom and a mop in front of a sideways American flag, paying homage to the iconic Grant Wood painting  American Gothic . He also took notable portraits of Muhammad Ali, Stokely Carmichael, Gloria Vanderbilt, Ingri...

An Uncommon Cape: Researching the Histories and Mysteries of a Property Illustrated Talk & Signing Rye Free Reading Room (in collaboration with Arcade Books ) Wednesday, October 17, 2012 7:30 pm 1061 Boston Post Road, Rye, NY 914.967.0480 http://www.ryelibrary.org/ calendar/ Hope you can join me.  Enter through the door on the far right as you face the library. Eleanor Eleanor Phillips Brackbill, author An Uncommon Cape: Researching the Histories and Mysteries of a Property http://www.uncommoncape.com/ Now available from SUNY Press http://www.sunypress.edu/p- 5610-an-uncommon-cape.aspx

"To Be Considered..."   An Art Auction and Fund Raising Benefit     October 25-28, 2012        The Muriel Guépin Gallery and Heights Chateau cordially invite you to participate in 2 great events: Thursday, October 25:  VIP Preview and Wine Tasting featuring over 30 wines from around the world with cheese and charcuterie. Fee of $50 per person   Friday, October 26:  Silent Art Auction. Free event       We have asked over 80 local artists to donate works for our benefit and each piece will be starting at auction as low as a third of the normal retail price. This is a great way of helping out a good cause and collecting art at a great price. Please see the dates and times below for more information. In order to participate in the silent auction, we will be asking participants to register with the gallery to place their bids. Bidding will start at our VIP Preview- Wine Tasting event and will clo...

SAVE THE DATE We the committee would like to cordially invite you to attend a reception to benefit: Silent and live auction to benefit both organizations Thursday, November 29, 2012 6:00 – 9:00 PM Eastern Mutual of America Building 320 Park Avenue New York, NY MORE INFORMATION to learn and register http://www.fidesco-international.org/us/fundraiser/fideslp4y/

  HOURS: Friday, Oct 19: 2pm-7pm Saturday, October 20: 10am-7pm Sunday, October 21: 10am-4pm      ART OFF   THE MAIN FILLS A BIG VOID With the discontinuation of the National Black Fine Art Show and ART OFF the MAIN being an online fair for the past 2 years, there has been an enormous void on the art scene.  Buoyed by the numerous pleas for the return of ART OFF the MAIN, we are pleased to return to fill the void. We invite you to join us on this journey as we begin to rebuild a high quality show devoted to African Diasporic, Caribbean and Latin American Art. Please join us October 19-20, and we ask that you become a friend of the show and share this information with your family, friends, professional associates, facebook friends and twitter followers.